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Old trees provide nesting holes for some bird species, diseased and moribund trees provide a substrate for many species of fungi, dead wood provides a resource for saproxylic (wood-feeding) insects, and some moth species will only lay their eggs on the foliage of young trees, etc.
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Garrick RC, Sands CJ, Rowell DM, Tait NN, Greenslade P, et al. (2004) Phylogeography recapitulates topography: very fine-scale local endemism of a saproxylic
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